Product Details
* WESTLEY RICHARDS, LONDON
A .450 (W/R CARBINE) SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE, MODEL '1871 PATENT' CARBINE', serial no. 1400,
circa 1872, with round 22in. barrel marked at the breech 'FOR 1 1/2in. CASE', block and dove-tailed blade fore-sight, small elevating ladder rear-sight, slab-sided receiver with large safety on the right, the left hand side signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT, 170 NEW BOND ST, LONDON', walnut straight-hand butt-stock (repaired crack on left hand side of wrist), iron heel-plate with central trap-door, under-lever cocking, walnut full-length fore-end with single iron barrel-band and moulded iron nose-cap, provision for under-barrel clearing-rod (missing)
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Estimate £400-600
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament